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Barbiturates Summary
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Barbiturates are a group of drugs that act as depressants on the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). They are derived from barbituric acid, a chemical discovered in 1863. Scientists looking for a drug to treat anxiety and nervousness...
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Barbiturates: Complications Summary
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Barbiturates are central nervous system (CNS) DEPRESSANTS ("downers"). These drugs produce sedative, hypnotic, and anesthetic effects. Depending on the dose used, any single drug in this class may produce sedation (decreased...
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Barbiturates Summary
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Belonging to a class of mood-altering drugs, barbiturates induce relaxation and sleep. By manipulating the central nervous system, barbiturates can effect degrees of behavioral depression from mild sedation to coma, and, if used improperly, can cause...
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Barbiturates Summary
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Barbiturates are medicines that act on the central nervous system (CNS). As a group, they are known as central nervous depressants or sedative-hypnotic drugs. They cause drowsiness and may control seizures (convulsions). Barbiturates make people very...
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Barbiturate Information
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Barbiturates are drugs that act as central nervous system depressants, and by virtue of this they produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to anesthesia. Some are also used as anticonvulsants. Barbiturates are derivatives of barbituric...
 


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Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Barbiturate Hyperalgesia Revisited
01/01/2004: 980 words, approx. 3 pages
To the Editor: The significance of barbiturate hyperalgesia in the postoperative setting, first suggested by Glutton-Brock more than 40 years ago,1 has not received any attention since our publication in 1994 of results that did not demonstrate an effect in the first 48...
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The Washington Post
Maybe It Was Barbiturates, Not Fatigue
06/11/2001: 899 words, approx. 3 pages
The ring of truth can be very loud, even two months later. A call I got last week is a neat piece of proof. On March 21, I wrote about a strange incident that played out over several highways one Friday night. ...
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A new challenge to Ky. executions arises
11/23/2007: 335 words, approx. 1 pages
A Kentucky death-row prisoner claims that giving a condemned inmate a sedative on the day of execution interferes with the drug cocktail used in lethal injections.The lawsuit by Gregory L. Wilson, 51, is a new challenge to Kentucky's execution method after the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Some Teens Face Drug-Testing Parents
9/19/2006: 765 words, approx. 3 pages
Teen drug users know better than to cross paths with police officers walking the beat or school principals roaming the hallways. Now there's a new enemy in the generational war on drugs: drug testing-parents. The explosion of Internet...
 


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